Unfiltered with Josh Cohen
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Interview with Laura Loomer
March 19, 2019 03:10Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993) is a conservative journalist, political activist, and Internet personality. She was a reporter for Canadian far-right website The Rebel Media during the summer of 2017, resigning that September. Prior to June 2017, she worked for Project Veritas with James O'Keefe. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer
Interview with Karen Straughan
March 19, 2019 02:27Karen Straughan is a divorced mother of three who has been writing fearlessly on gender issues since 2010. An anti-feminist and advocate for men and boys, she has contributed to a body of non-feminist, evidence-based counter-theory with the aim of reconciliation between the sexes and a more positive view of masculinity. Though she has no academic background, her work has been featured in high school and university classrooms in the US, Canada and elsewhere to introduce students to a more h...
Pope Francis, The Ecumenical Imam
February 16, 2019 17:25A tidal wave of morbid curiosity and ideological confusion washed over me as I read of Pope Francis' recent return from Abu Dhabi where he met with the Great Imam of Al-Azhar. The purpose of the visit was what would seem the very noble goal of promoting "common values" by creating a "reasoned document with sincerity and seriousness to be a common declaration of good and loyal will". Thus, the "Document on The Human Brotherhood For World Peace and The Common Course" was born. I included a lin...
Lunchtime Thoughts On Abram's Speech After Trump's Address
February 06, 2019 18:47I had a few people asking me about my thoughts on Stacey Abrams' speech. Here you go... I was unforgivably bored the first few minutes when she was talking about her family. That's not her fault, it's just whenever politicians go on in that vein, I very immediately lose interest. She took a long time to get to the point about unity and hard work. After that, I think she came across eloquent and genuine enough. I don't see her speech as especially original but as I say she seemed to ,at lea...
Steve Shives: The Soy-Infected Facist
December 11, 2018 17:10Ah, my first polemic. You, know they say you never forget your first love but I think for me, being the lovable curmudgeon that I am, it may be the first hate. Perhaps, the first "extreme dislike" is more apropo, but that isn't quite as catchy. I think that hatred, though it often provides rather junky energy can, in fact, be tremendous cause to spring out of bed in the morning. Further, the cleverest of this breed of curmudgeon may attempt to canalize this energy into writing. This is wha...
Richard Marx And New Friends
November 04, 2018 17:24On a sightly less serious or perhaps esoteric note than the tribulations of Brett Kavanaugh (http://theunfilteredpodcast.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-strange-case-of-brett-kavanaugh.html) and Vaclav Havel (http://theunfilteredpodcast.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-romanticists-revolution.html), I want to regale you with the story of how my otherwise placid Saturday burst with surprise and new experiences. A few weeks ago, I was at Pizza Luce in Hopkins,MN doing some writing. I believe it was the "Love L...
A Romanticist's Revolution
October 29, 2018 02:45I suppose I would, generally, describe my stance as an observer of life as that of the "witty cynic". That is I can, at times, take a rather alarmist and reactionary (note that I didn't say wrongheaded) approach to the great political and socioeconomic strife we all find ourselves in. Further, I am able to use my immense faculty of sarcasm to comment on these deformities in ways that are not entirely uninteresting. However, there are some events that occur that awaken my secondary impulse as...
The Strange Case Of Brett Kavanaugh
October 04, 2018 02:36Well, this has been quite the circus, hasn't it? And for all the wrong reasons. The one thing that hasn't been discussed in any noteworthy measure over the course of the nomination hearings has been the one thing that should have been the focus... Mr. Kavanaugh's politics. "Will he overturn Roe v. Wade?", was the only topic that was even tangentially or peripherally covered in all this mess. I know that there are many who will read this that won't be exhilarated by this prospect, but I will ...
A Love Letter To Literature and Poetry
September 09, 2018 02:57My own acquaintance and relationship with poetry is bound up with acquisition, memorization, and recital. That is: I realized when I was quite young that I could learn poems "by heart," as the saying goes. It was no great hardship for me to commit poems and verses of literary accretions to memory. As Gwendolen remarked in "The Importance Of Being Earnest", it was less a duty than it was a pleasure. Furthermore, I found that this fairly simple attainment could, as well as grant me satisfactio...
Turning Point USA And The Rush Of The Red Wave By Joshua Cohen
August 25, 2018 23:27Turning Point's mission is defined in its website as follows: The organization’s mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. In my view, I believe that Turning Point is an organization dedicated, quite simply, to the promulgation of Conservatism on campus and elsewhere. In reviewing Turning Point, I've decided that given the proliferation of the leftist influence on campus (to say nothing of the...
Interview With "Spotlight" Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Robinson
August 02, 2018 03:31Walter V. Robinson (born January 13, 1946) is an American investigative reporter for The Boston Globe, where he has worked as reporter and editor for 34 years. From 2007 to 2014, he was a Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. Robinson currently holds the title of Editor-at-Large at the Boston Globe, as well as the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State Univ...
Interview With Author And Reformed White-Collar Criminal Walt Pavlo
August 02, 2018 03:20Walt Pavlo is a nationally recognized speaker who lectures on all aspects of white collar crime and federal law enforcement. In addition to speaking, Walt is the co-founder and president of Prisonology, an expert testimony, consulting and training firm for issues on the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Walt co-authored "Stolen Without A Gun" with Neil Weinberg (Reporter at Bloomberg) and is currently a contributor to Forbes.com and the New York School of Law's Compliance and Enforcement Program...
Civil Rights in America: A Secular Cause by J.W. Cohen
April 29, 2018 20:11Flying in the face of rather knowable and easily verifiable history, it seems that the Civil Rights movement as a whole has been hijacked by theists as a whole cloth Christian cause. In a public debate I had last year with a Methodist Pastor named Tyler Sit (who, by the way runs a church with a very serious and noble dedication to the promulgation of environmental justice, the “New City Church”) on Religion (guess which side I took), it was stated by the good Pastor that slavery and indeed...